The thesis presents the apprenticeship of a Chinese Martial Arts in the Chenjiagou Brasil School of Taijiquan, located in the Santa Cecília neighborhood (São Paulo/SP). Fieldwork was undertaken between 2020-2022 and dwells on the notion of performance ethnography, as it investigates, from the position of the apprentice, the community of practice centered on the figure of Gil Rodrigues–the school s teacher, founder, and director. Results are presented in an ethnography of on learning Chen Shi Taijiquan (Chen Family Tai Chi Chuan). Departing from the theories of Jean Lave, Tim Ingold, and Gregory Bateson, the thesis explores the analysis of the social organization of technique in its modes of distribution of access to activities conceptualized in context as taijiquan and Chinese culture. To introduce the kung fu world of São Paulo city from the 90s to the present day, I develop an ethnobiographic perspective to present the reception and spread of Chinese Martial Arts in Brasil through Gil s personal pursuit of taijiquan. I argue that his experience of Martial Arts–one that is shared in his school and in the Shaosheng Oriental Cultural Centre–may be conceived as a contiguous activity to the Chinese diaspora in the capital of São Paulo. Using concepts of Yuk Hui, François Jullien, Anne Cheng, and Stephan Feuchtwang, I go back to Mauss techniques of the body and civilization to analyze the concept of Chinese culture, connecting it to the anthropological debate about culture, aesthetics, and ontology. In conclusion, I suggest that this apprentice of taijiquan moves towards the genesis of an apprentice whose action relies upon the maintenance of principles and fundamentals–understood both as virtues in their social lives and as patterns expressed in their movements, in a knowledge and wisdom path characteristic of the Chinese cosmotechnics.